International: American unions to the rescue of Molex’s French employees

Intervention at the shareholders’ GA. The two French Molex employees who wanted to speak at the general assembly of the American parent company, in Lisle, IL, on October 30, were turned back. This was a great disillusion of the AFL-CIO union representatives who are also Molex shareholders via their pension fund, who invited their colleagues from the CGT federation to the General Assembly. In fact, trouble began the day before as soon as Guy Pavan and Denis Parise, the two union members, arrived at the Chicago airport. Immigration officials, holding paper cuttings telling the Molex conflict, kept the French unionists at the airport for four hours. The next day, bodyguards prevented the CGT delegation and about 50 American union members from entering the social headquarters.
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L, on October 30, were turned back. This was a great disillusion of the AFL-CIO union representatives who are also Molex shareholders via their pension fund, who invited their colleagues from the CGT federation to the General Assembly. In fact, trouble began the day before as soon as Guy Pavan and Denis Parise, the two union members, arrived at the Chicago airport. Immigration officials, holding paper cuttings telling the Molex conflict, kept the French unionists at the airport for four hours.

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